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What Happens When Academics Essay the “Wang Dang Doodle” of Life?
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What Happens When Academics Essay the “Wang Dang Doodle” of Life?

By
Mark Reynolds
/ 28 November 2017

Flippancy of postmodern rhetorical parkour (iƒ.e., “jargon"), when wielded indiscriminately, draws boundaries between the insiders who know it and the outsiders who don't.

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‘Middle C’ A Minor Story in a Major Key

By
Brendan Boyle
/ 28 May 2013
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In Search of Lost Time: André Aciman’s ‘Harvard Square’

By
Farisa Khalid
/ 3 April 2013
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Socially Valuable Knowledge: An Interview with Louis Menand

By
Arnold Pan
/ 2 June 2011
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It Will Come to Me by Emily Fox Gordon

By
Diane Leach
/ 27 May 2009
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The Zerg Through the Eyes of Marx

By
L.B. Jeffries
/ 31 March 2008

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